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Dec 6- Merck& Co Inc's drug that harnesses the immune system to fight cancer showed promise in Hodgkin lymphoma patients whose disease had progressed following prior therapies, according to data from a small, early stage trial being presented at a medical meeting. Craig Moskowitz, the study's principal investigator from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer...

Dec 6- Eighty-seven percent of Hodgkin lymphoma patients responded to a Bristol-Myers Squibb drug that helps the immune system fight the blood cancer, according to data from a small, early stage trial released on Saturday. Margaret Shipp, co-lead investigator of the Checkmate-039 study from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. The results were being...

Sept 29- Seattle Genetics Inc and Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd said their approved cancer drug was successfully used as a consolidation therapy in a late-stage trial for patients with a type of lymphatic cancer. Seattle Genetics said it expected to submit a marketing application to FDA for the drug's supplemental use in 2015..

Sept 29- Seattle Genetics Inc and Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd said their approved cancer drug was successfully used as a consolidation therapy in a late-stage trial for patients with a type of lymphatic cancer. Consolidation therapy is given to cancer patients who have undergone initial therapy and kills any cancer cells that may be left in the body.